BC Partners Said to Consider Bids for Chairmaker Stokke

By Kiel Porter and Aaron Kirchfeld -
Oct 16, 2013

BC Partners Ltd., Lion Capital LLP
and Bain Capital Partners LLC are among private-equity firms
considering bids for Stokke AS, a Norwegian maker of children’s
furniture, five people with knowledge of the situation said.

Advent International Corp. and Stockholm-based Nordic
Capital, may also make offers for Alesund, Norway-based Stokke
before an Oct. 21 deadline, said the people, who asked not to be
identified because the talks are private.

Stokke, whose products include the “Tripp Trapp”
highchair, may favor a private-equity firm with experience of
growing businesses internationally, said one of the people.

The company, owned by the family of the same name since it
was started in 1932, appointed Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) to
examine strategic options in May and is expected to fetch about
400 million euros ($540 million), the people said.